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Recent Examples of pothole
Taxpayers could fall into plenty of potholes if someone takes a wrong turn when claiming an attractive tax credit for buying an electric vehicle on their 2024 tax return.
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Susan Tompor, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Rolling over a pothole is an experience every driver wants to avoid.
—Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
Most of the major relationship milestones and potholes happen offscreen between the seasonal vacays, leaving us to find entertainment and meaning in the puny aftershocks.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 2 May 2025
Major indices that had fallen into a major pothole climbed back up.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Susan Tompor, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Rolling over a pothole is an experience every driver wants to avoid.
—Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
Most of the major relationship milestones and potholes happen offscreen between the seasonal vacays, leaving us to find entertainment and meaning in the puny aftershocks.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 2 May 2025
Major indices that had fallen into a major pothole climbed back up.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pothole
Noun
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Beside him stood two children, also cast in bronze, holding water basins that served as fountains — a nod to his charitable nature.—
Michael Wells,
Kansas City Star,
18 May 2025
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Used in the American heartland as well as in the Amazon basin where there’s been rapid deforestation for farming, the nitrogen-rich fertilizers are likely making their way into the Mississippi and Amazon Rivers as runoff, which then carries it into the Atlantic.—
Stephanie Elam,
CNN Money,
15 May 2025
Noun
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The team found that if an earthquake that caused more than six feet of subsidence were to happen today, the 100-year floodplain in estuaries in Cascadia would expand by 115 square miles.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 2025
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At least 232 barns – housing as many as 5.8 million birds at once – sit in floodplains.—
Gavin Off,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Jan. 2025
Noun
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
15 May 2025
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That includes Tom Cruise, as covert CIA division agent Ethan Hunt, riding a motorcycle off a 4,000-foot cliff and BASE jumping the final 500 feet of a ravine, or the breathless climactic train mayhem in 2023’s Dead Reckoning, the opening installment of this two-parter.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2025
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That initial drive was merely the opening act for the hike-able mesas, canyons, and sky-high sandstone beyond the visitor center gates.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
17 May 2025
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The octopus inhabits underwater canyons at depths of 3,400 to 5,000 feet.—
Real-Time news team,
Miami Herald,
16 May 2025
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Beer-brewing equipment, including 12 tanks, two copper brewhouse kettles and a cooling machine, had to be brought up to the 33rd floor of Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower by crane, but for guests, the epic views over the Singapore skyline are worth it.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2025
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Electric Kettles After enjoying your late-night or morning tea, remember to unplug your electric kettle.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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With one of the country’s best jockeys in the saddle and one of its most esteemed trainers behind her, don’t overlook her, especially underneath in vertical exotics. 4.—
Teresa Genaro,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Following a brief spell on the sidelines after surgery, Lock Stock and Harry Potter actor Nick Moran is already back in the saddle and has joined the cast of Brit espionage thriller Knightfall, alongside Ian Ogilvy, Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott, Michael Paré and Roger Moore’s son Geoffrey Moore.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In these seemingly inhuman terrains, the figure coyly persists: a woman’s profile appears along the sheer side of a craggy peak; another’s eye peeks out from a crevasse.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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Dana Isherwood fell into a deep crevasse during a practice climb.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The gulch is in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
16 Apr. 2025
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Press releases from the attorneys general emphasize the gulch between the leaders, a microcosm of their significantly different approaches to running the agency.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Pothole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pothole. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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